Tacca Chantrieri has beautiful foliage. Its beautiful inflorescence complete with long purplish filaments seem to bear resemblance to tiger wiskers and hence its name Tiger Wiskers. It is a traditional Chinese Medicinal plant and is believed to be able to cure gastric ulcer, high blood pressure and burns. Caution this plant is poisonous In Malaysia  we call it the Devil's Flower and strange, fascinating stories surround it.